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Halakot Gedolot: Geniza Fragmente |
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[Only Ed.] Bernhard Levy |
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Bonn |
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[Buchdruckerei Azriel] |
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1937 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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Only edition. 35 pp., 241:168 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in the original paper wrappers. |
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The author's (b. 1894) inaugural-dissertation at the Rheinischen Friedrich Wilhelms-Universitat of Bonn. The text is in German and Hebrew and there are extensive footnotes. The work is textual criticism of the Halakhot Gedolot based on materials found in the Cairo Geniza. |
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The Halakhot Gedolot has an introduction - it is the first rabbinic work to have one - and it is generally held that it was directed against the Karaites and others who rejected the Oral Law. It is in two parts, the one comprising aggadic statements in praise of the Torah and its students; the other enumerating, for the first time, the 613 commandments mentioned in the Talmud (Mak. 23b). They are classified according to the degree of punishment incurred in transgressing them and according to their common character. This list of 365 negative and 248 positive commandments, which provided the basis for similar elaborations in various azharot, was severely criticized by Maimonides in his Sefer ha-Mitzvot, and defended by Nahmanides. |
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